by Andy Dolphin | Oct 17, 2012 | about, issues, landscape, oil painting, tips
When I first switched from commercial to fine art, I tended to paint with almost painstaking attention to detail. I used fine brushes and painted leaves on shrubbery in forest landscapes or feathers on portraits of birds. It was a hangover from my days working as an...
by Andy Dolphin | Oct 12, 2012 | issues, landscape, limited palette, oil painting, plein air, tips
Over the years I’ve painted a lot of karri trees. I saw most of them as “tree portraits”, each painting trying to capture the character of a tree in a particular location. Ive painted them next to winding tracks, streams and bridges and I’ve...
by Andy Dolphin | Oct 4, 2012 | oil painting, plein air, seascape
This seascape began life as a plein air oil painting and was finished off in the studio.(In the bay. 35x25cm oil on board. © Andy Dolphin)SOLD You can read a little more about it in a previous article – plein air seascapes; still going – and note that...
by Andy Dolphin | Oct 4, 2012 | art trail, awards, exhibition, news, oil painting
Two big stories for this blog update so I’ll have to choose which one to mention first.I’ll make a decision and start with my exhibition.The joint exhibition with Sue Hartley opened at West Cape Howe Wines last Thursday night. It was one hell of a day...
